Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
$18.84
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2009
Summary
Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands’ suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town. A prominent antiques dealer who hangs a Nazi flag from his window to disrupt the shooting of a movie. And a redneck gigolo whose conquests describe him as a ‘walking streak of sex’.
These are some of the real resident…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340992852 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340992859 |
| Author: | John Berendt |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 168mm x 27mm |
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The best non-fiction novel since IN COLD BLOOD and a lot more entertaining
Elegant and wicked … Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime. - The New York Times Book Review
The best non-fiction novel since IN COLD BLOOD and a lot more entertaining - Edmund WhiteEnthralling - Robert Winder, IndependentBerendt - and the reader - are in travel-writer heaven … This is a book which leaves you amused, spooked and introduced to a new piece of America - Mark Lawson, Independent on SundayPerfect storytelling - wildly funny, occasionally alarming and utterly enthralling - Moira Shearer, Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
John Berendt
John Berendt is a journalist and former editor of New York magazine. His first book, MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, was an international bestseller. He lives in New York.
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